Stuart Tyson Smith

Stuart Tyson Smith is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, His research focuses on the ethnic, ideological, social, and  economic dynamics of colonialism and intercultural interaction and a postcolonial critique of scholarly views of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He co-directs excavations at Egyptian colonial and indigenous Nubian sites in northern Sudan (c. 2500-650 BCE). He is the author of Wretched Kush: ethnic identities and boundaries in Egypt's Nubian empire (Routledge, 2003) and co-editor (with Pearce Paul Creasman) of The Origins and Afterlives of Kush, Vol. 35 The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections (2022).